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... If life be in youth , so displeasing , " cries he to himself , " what will it appear when age comes on ? If it be at present indifferent , sure it will then be execrable . " This thought embittered every reflection ; till at last , 20.
... If life be in youth , so displeasing , " cries he to himself , " what will it appear when age comes on ? If it be at present indifferent , sure it will then be execrable . " This thought embittered every reflection ; till at last , 20.
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... cries of dying men ; and then Content was , indeed , far from you ! Death and De- struction are her inveterate enemies ; nor can she ever draw breath , when surrounded by Slaughter and Ra- pine . Would you , my son , gain Happiness ...
... cries of dying men ; and then Content was , indeed , far from you ! Death and De- struction are her inveterate enemies ; nor can she ever draw breath , when surrounded by Slaughter and Ra- pine . Would you , my son , gain Happiness ...
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... cries repeated , at intervals , up the glen , which gradually becoming more distant , grew faint , and died away . Montmo- rency , ever ready to relieve the oppressed , couched his lance , and bidding his followers prepare , was hasting ...
... cries repeated , at intervals , up the glen , which gradually becoming more distant , grew faint , and died away . Montmo- rency , ever ready to relieve the oppressed , couched his lance , and bidding his followers prepare , was hasting ...
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... cried a banditto with a fiend - like smile , " look and anticipate the pleasures of your journey . " Dismay and pale affright shook the cold limbs of Montmorency , and as he leant over the illimitable void , the dew sat in big drops ...
... cried a banditto with a fiend - like smile , " look and anticipate the pleasures of your journey . " Dismay and pale affright shook the cold limbs of Montmorency , and as he leant over the illimitable void , the dew sat in big drops ...
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... cried I , kneeling down upon the last step but one in my ascent - Grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as a companion and shower down thy mitres , if it seem good unto thy divine Providence ...
... cried I , kneeling down upon the last step but one in my ascent - Grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as a companion and shower down thy mitres , if it seem good unto thy divine Providence ...
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Page 347 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Page 345 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in .the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at everything that stood by them to save themselves.
Page 346 - ... that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Page 346 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 343 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Page 344 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 343 - that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? '
Page 346 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas ! 'said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 17 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Page 344 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other. What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...